At the end of every calendar year, 1000s of media outlets, magazines, and individuals create Best Of lists to commemorate their favorite items of the year passed. Format took its own look at 2006 and came-up with lists on music,…

Although Nas made â€œhip-hop is deadâ€ a catch-phrase in 2006, fans around the world have been saying it for years. After narrowing down our Top 10 Mainstream and Independent Hip-Hop Albums of 2006 lists, we realized that there were a…

2006 was a year filled with comebacks, delayed releases, and pleasant surprises. With the eruption of the Gameâ€™s Doctorâ€™s Advocate, the critical content of The Roots Game Theory, the seemingly unbelievable track â€œBlack Republicanâ€ from Nasâ€™s Hip Hop is Dead,…

The mixtape genre has seen a crazy rate of evolution over the past few years; the fact that we still call them â€œmixtapesâ€ when we canâ€™t find a tape to save our lives is pretty ironic. In 2006, artists were…

2006 was a pretty good year for hip hop. There are still some fans, though, that yearn for the good old days when rap meant basketball jerseys, backpacks, and so-called conscious lyrics. Hip-hop is dead says Mr. Nasir Jones and…

With the ever-evolving dominance of mainstream hip-hop and the industry over what was once an art-form primarily represented in the streets, it is important to acknowledge and pay respects to those artists who are still doing it independently. With budgets…

Itâ€™s a basic concept â€“ take the components of any successful hip-hop album, put them on a video and sell it for the same price as an album. With advances in technology, and hip-hopâ€™s continued mainstream rise, this year, the…

A picture says a thousand words but for many hip-hop album covers there often arenâ€™t a thousand words to be said. The typical hip-hop album cover displays a portrait of the rapper with the album title sprawled across the bottom,…